I find it hard to see how the Sanitation Department received so much praise for sitting on the side of the road with plows and waiting for it to snow. They got paid to do nothing while the garbage sat in front of my house. My garbage (including recyclables) is normally picked up by 1 p.m., so why weren’t they doing that job in the meantime. I guess the mayor can just raise my real estate taxes to help pay for their overtime.

I also find it hard to feel sorry for them because it might be cold or raining, as another reader put it. They get paid pretty good and sometimes for doing nothing. The mayor might want to crack down on all the agencies’ overtime policies and maybe the cash cow home owners won’t have to keep making up the difference in our special taxes we seem to be hit with regularly.